Deepfake Mark Zuckerberg thanks Democrats for their 'service and inaction' on antitrust bills

A deepfake version of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg thanked Congressional Democrats for their'service and inaction' on antitrust legislation. The eerie, convincing clip is the work of advocacy group Demand Progress Action, which used deepfake technology to turn an actor into Zuckerberg - who thanks Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for holding up two major pieces of antitrust legislation this year. 'Over the past five years, Congress has held over 30 hearings designed to hold Big Tech accountable,' fake Zuckerberg says in the ad, which the liberal group plans to use for television ads in New York and Washington, D.C. 'Sometimes you land a punch.' 'Most of the time, it felt like playing paddy cake,' fake Zuckerberg boasts. 'So I'd like to propose a toast to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (above),' fake Zuckerberg says, holding a glass of champagne We then see a clip of Republican Sen. Hatch asking him how he sustains a business model where users don't pay for services. A grinning Zuckerberg says: 'Senator, we run ads.' 'Either way, it looks like the most consequential action that Congress is poised to take, a bipartisan bill to prevent companies like mine from self-dealing, is about to fade away like so many efforts to rein in big tech in the past.'